About us

Pt K A Sivaramakrishna Shastri (1899-1984) was a man given to simple living and high thinking. He walked his talk throughout life: ‘if you want to think high, you have to live simple; if you lived high, you could only think simple’. He became a Shastri by learning, not by birthright. After retiring as faculty member at Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, Pt Shastri was asked to take over the editorship of the encyclopedic effort on Sanksrit that was going on in Deccan College, Pune, for decades. He was honored with the Rashtrapati Award for lifetime contribution to Sanskrit and Indian values in 1977. Till his last breath, he was a true Karma Yogi, teaching, writing, thinking, and adding value to himself and others around him.

Shastriji and his wife Sharadaji were blessed with five sons and two daughters. The youngest of them, Dr S Srinivasan, established this foundation in 2001, with a view to serving the community in the areas of healthcare, education and human values.

Dr Srinivasan obtained his MBBS and MD (Pharmacology) from the University of Pune in the 1960s. He was an academician for nearly a decade, half of which he spent as faculty member at CWRU School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He worked as the medical / medico-marketing director of many healthcare companies in India for nearly a quarter century, serving last as Senior Vice President with Aventis, Mumbai.

Dr Srinivasan is a natural orator, writer, motivator and facilitator. He has authored ‘health @ your finger tips’, a practical and reader-friendly book that blends all aspects of health in the modern world and is targeted at today’s busy professional / executive. His two other books on value-based management and wholesome wellness for the service sector executive are to be released in the coming year. His musical profile is presented elsewhere in this website. Dr Srinivasan’s classmate-wife, Dr Usha, cancer pathologist, nature lover, watercolor artiste and humanist, supports him to the hilt in all his efforts. Their two sons and daughters-in-law are busy with their own executive careers in India and abroad.